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Ghana- Despair [1]

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Date: 2023-06-04

For those who have been following my Ghana stories….

Yesterday I wrote that we are all making it and at least surviving.

Last night John sent me a message in panic. He had gone outside in the dark to have a bowel movement (he has no sort of toilet at all right now) and passed a massive amount of blood. He wanted to send photos but knew I didn’t want to see. (As I don’t.) He begged for money to go to see his doctor.

We made it through the 40 years in the desert last month to reach June’s funding and a financial disaster strikes when we are barely into the new month.

The thought of going through all of June just as broke and suffering as we went through last month is just appalling to me. I am not a strong man and I have no fortitude at all. I am not sure I have what it takes to do that again so soon.

And it is entirely possible that John has cancer that is killing him.

‘”And let us not be weary in well-doing” but….

Ghana is a country that has suffered perhaps worse than many other places because of the cruelty of humankind against its weaker fellows. History screams out the crimes that were committed against its people. Its beautiful children were harvested like grain and sold like animals in the marketplace.

I know all of the world is suffering and no one has a monopoly on pain.

I have met good people in Ghana who would be leaders in art, science, and commerce if fate had given them a chance but that was denied them from birth. I have also met people there who are, perhaps, no better than they should be. But they are people. And many of them are suffering.

If one chooses to help fellow humans as one can then inevitably there will be endless pain and suffering to deal with. I know that there will not be an end of that until one finally turns away and it is not my nature to do that.

But really, right now John and I could use a break.

I feel sad for Anabel. She is the one who will suffer and no one to help.

Death and sadness.

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